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What is the process indulge to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro?

First you start off by searching for the tour operator you wish to go with. Then do some fitness exercise in the meantime. After you are satisfied with the tour operator ask questions and choose the route. Get to be familiar with your itinerary. Make sure that the itinerary is well solved and people handling it are professionals including the guides and porters. After all is set and you are happy you can send a deposit to do the booking and confirm with the company that you will be going on the specific dates. Book your flights then accommodation. It is best if you ask for recommendation from the tour operator. After doing this go ahead and book straight online for the accommodation. Arrange your pick up with the company. It is best to arrive a day before. In the next morning after arrival go through your mountain equipment with your guide and make a list of the equipment to be rented. Go to a rental store and get the missing gear. After that you will go to the gate for checking in. Ensure that you have your passport with you for it will be needed for verification at the gate.

These processes are as follows;

Training
When deciding to climb Kilimanjaro, you need to involve your ability of training, that’s why Kilimanjaro national park authority suggest that before climbing Kilimanjaro the climbers should first get training. Also you should consider about what time it will take to get training. You have to consider all of these things because will determine if you are qualified to climb mountain Kilimanjaro and summit at the top of mountain. All in all you have to think about your health including legs strength when deciding to run or to walk when you’re climbing on the slopes.

Practice the Right Breathing Techniques
This is another process which is very important to do before starting climbing the mountain. This is because when you deciding to Practice the right breathing techniques needed for high altitude trekking it will help you to trek for long distance without getting tired. In low oxygen environments you need to flood your body with oxygen. You need to do deep breaths in through your nose and fast out through your mouth. Your body and muscles are being starved of oxygen when climbing Kilimanjaro therefore you need to force oxygen into your body. Doing this while building up weight in your backpack is key to success to summit at the top of highest mountain in Africa.

Think about body oxygen
In low oxygen environments you need to use oxygen. As we know that on mountain there is a lot of elevation so you have to carry emergency oxygen which could help you when body’s oxygen decreased. When you think about long steep descents you need to have training how to increase your body oxygen by practice walking daily distances. Consider ascent and descent and think how you train for low oxygen environments.

Make sure you have a better health
Anyone who have a good record from the doctor we mean that medical checkup which will prove that you will able to climb the Kilimanjaro mountain. Despite being a mountain which is accessible to most people and not just experienced trekkers, you must prepare. If you are used to hiking up and down hills with a weighted backpack, while covering long distances in difficult terrain, then you have less training to do. However, if you are older or younger or not used to hiking, but consider yourself to have good overall fitness then you will have more specific training to do consider your body heath. Kilimanjaro among of the highest mountain in the world and is the first highest mountain in Africa so you need to more specific training geared towards hills and stairs by building your muscles in order to get more chance to climb.

Prepare your mentally fit for climb
This means being prepared of climbing Kilimanjaro. Being mentally prepared will also be crucial to your chance of a successful summit climb. When pushing the limits of your physical training will help to develop your capacity to decrease the stress. Use right gear like sleeping bag and air mattress. The best physical preparation is activity which simulates, as far as possible, the demands on your body that you will have during your climb of Kilimanjaro. It is important to start training as early as possible before your scheduled climb.

Make sure you come Prepared
You should have enough money in order to achieve your trip. The money will be used to rent all the right gear and all other important equipments as required like tickets, passport, visa and so on. There is no point in doing all of that and not putting in the efforts in your training. You have also signed up to a group climb and you need to consider the group and do not show up unprepared. You need to respect the mountains, the team you are going with and so come prepared and make sure you find the time to train and the tour operator should make sure they will provide the correct training to their clients.

Give Yourself Enough Time to Build Specific Conditioning
You’re advised also to use your time build specific conditions in order to prevent by injuries or any other emergency which could occur on mountain Kilimanjaro. It is no good trying to cram all of your training into the month before you depart. Put your training plan together months in advance, in order to build on the correct fitness, conditioning and endurance. Taking the right amount of time to train will also help you avoid returning back before summit the Kilimanjaro.

Be serious
Climbing the Kilimanjaro is serious issue so as a climber you should not ignore the mountain because to summit is a serious challenge which needs one to have strong preparation and specific physical conditioning. Checking your body organs if are strong and have ability to climb the mountain. The training is the key to success to summit the Kilimanjaro. With forward planning, the right acclimatization schedule and the right attitude to training, you will give yourself the best chance of success.

Make sure you have the Right Gear and equipment
Right gear will make you easily reach the summit on Kilimanjaro Mountain. Right clothes, right camping gear, cooking equipments and other enable the climbers to get at the top more easily. When climbers experienced on bad weather condition they should have the right clothes which could help them to avoid mountain diseases mountain like acute mountain sickness (AMS) and other mountain diseases.

Climbing with experienced tour guides
It is important to climb with the right tour which arrange right team and who are investing in the local community including porters, guides, staff, servers, tent crew. When you are choosing a best company you should think about (Africa natural tour company).

Make sure you have the Right Vaccinations
Tour operators should prepare right vaccination for their clients in order to solve any emergency disease which may occur when trekking. For most people, you will have the choice whether or not you get vaccinations before traveling to Tanzania.

Prepare water and food for your trip
You need more water at high altitude. Likewise, you need to get used to drinking more water before the trip. It is advised to drink more than four liters per day on the mountain. Making sure you are well hydrated, staying out of the sun and not getting sun burned in order to be hydrate all the time. And also another thing to prepare is to have a lot of food which could give you more energy during climbing practice and it will enable you to reach the summit.

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